[kwlug-disc] laptops with Linux preinstalled

[Ron Singh]

I have the overshoot issue with anything based on Debian 10, so Ubu 18.x
and 20.x are an issue.

My fix was to rip libinput out and install evdev and life became good again.

It was weird, nothing I could do in Ubu 18.x and 20.x would allow me to
slow down the pointer acceleration, the mouse setting applets for various
DEs just didn't do anything in terms of adjusting the acceleration. A good
guy name of Clem helped me on this, he suggested the rip/replace thing.

I am stilling Ubu 16.04LTS for all production devices, clients will be
busting a move to 20.04 at year's end. 18.04 was hot garbage for me, so was
happy to bypass that altogether.

Interestingly, I have not had a single issue like this with Manjaro(Xfce
and Cinnamon) or ArcoLinux(same DEs), but Arch-y stuff ain't for me, I need
LTS.

Thanks,

Ron S.



On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:41 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Ron Singh wrote:
> > These are gorgeous systems, but the lack of a trackpoint is a
> > dealbreaker for me.
>
> I have T450 at home, and all laptops at work are ThinkPad.  I even
> bought external USB ThinkPad keyboard to force myself to get used to
> ThinkPad layout.  I just couldn't.
>
>     1. <Fn> key is where <Left-Ctrl> is.  I hate that.
>
>     2. Trackpoint always overshoots, and I spend most of my time correcting
>     that overshoot.  Nothing matches the productivity of 5-button mouse,
>     where button 4/5 are back/forward.
>
> Question:
>     - How do you avoid trackpoint overshoot?
> --
> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
>
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